loves programming and has been doing that professionally for over 10 years - moving from C, Perl, Java to Ruby & Javascript. Choon Keat am curious about everything and am always thinking about ways to improve [his] life with better design, better software. Sometimes, he even blogs about these things.

Choon Keat is practical, delivers simple solution and executes iteratively. He has been practicing that on a startup he has founded, SharedCopy.

Professional summary

Choon Keat finds himself involved in startups most of the time. But he did once venture into a mid-size J2EE shop to find out what enterprise software was about. 

His hands-on experience range from (server-side) administrating Linux boxes, writing web apps & integration with SMSC, MMSC & Jabber, to (client-side) writing Eclipse plugins, Javascript, Flash ActionScript, to programming on various other devices like phones and the TV.

His recent work revolves around email, Ruby, Rails and a lot of Javascript.

Software passion

Choon Keat loves open source. He gives back by submitting patches to the Rails project and releasing his own software as open source: hquery, oauth4r, poormans-trends, krjs, web_sg_form_builder, hpricot_forms, rssfwd.

Occasionally, the need to share overflows and he turns them into talks for geek audience: Sharing session for PHP User Group, OAuth for Singapore Ruby Brigade, and Rails boot camp 1 and Rails boot camp 2.

Choon Keat understands that experiments are a large part of learning. Hence he’ll occasionally deploy experiments like Real [Twitter] Friends, Rss Paper for iPhone, Timezone UI & Translation UI just to see how well they work.

What he’s working on now

Pushing unobtrusive server scripting into production. Getting into the metrics religion. Experimenting with new user interfaces for iPhone.

Contact

e-mail:  contactme@choonkeat.com

twitter: @choonkeat